Cows famous quotes

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
-- Aaron Copland

#Symphony #Listening #Cows

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Advice #Hamburgers #Cows

None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
-- Adora Svitak

#Home #Enthusiasm #Cows

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
-- Al Ries

#Marketing #Cows #Looks

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Knowledge #Cows #Sacred

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
-- Alex Kapranos

#Mcdonalds #Buns #Cows

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Needs #Cows #Whiskey

Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it
-- Andrew Leigh

#Inspiration #Cows #Milk

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
-- Ann Landers

#Believe #Cows #Milk

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.
-- Ann Veneman

#Teamwork #Cows #Canada

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Country #Growth #Cows

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Writing #Bars #Cows

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!
-- Bear Bryant

#College #Dames #Cows

Total contentment is only for cows.
-- Bette Midler

#Contentment #Cows

Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time?
-- Billy Connolly

#Thinking #Cows #Milk

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.
-- Bob Dylan

#Cat #Cows #Dense

You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home
-- Bob Dylan

#Home #Giving #Cows

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.
-- Bud Grant

#Football #Cows #Herds

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.
-- Carrie Underwood

#Oklahoma #People #Cows

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
-- Casey Affleck

#Pigs #Cows #Painful

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
-- Chanakya

#Son #Giving #Cows

Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.
-- Craig Ferguson

#Appreciate #Cows #Thanks

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.
-- Curtis Armstrong

#Home #Balance #Cows

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
-- Dan Barber

#Vegetables #Perspective #Cows

If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.
-- Dan Piraro

#Drinking #Cows #Milk

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
-- Daniel Drew

#Men #Play #Cows

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
-- David Deutsch

#Feelings #Cows #Logic

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks
-- Dean Rusk

#Giving #United States #Cows

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.
-- Deborah Kerr

#Beautiful #Eye #Cows

Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.
-- Derek Jarman

#Yellow #Cows #Made

I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow?
-- Devon Aoki

#Funny Inspirational #Thinking #Cows

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
-- Djuna Barnes

#Humble #Wind #Cows

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
-- Dodie Smith

#Cows #Topaz #Patient

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.
-- Don Henley

#Song #Baby #Cows

I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.
-- Dorothy Wordsworth

#Cows #Fields #Eating

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Vegetables #Cows #Want

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay
-- E. B. White

#Needs #Use #Cows

Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.
-- Eric Stonestreet

#Pigs #Kansas #Cows

Kiss till the cow comes home.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Home #Kissing #Cows

At least 50% of all children in the United States are allergic to cow's milk, many undiagnosed. Dairy products are the leading cause of food allergy, often revealed by diarrhea, constipation, and fatigue. Many cases of asthma and sinus infections are reported to be relieved and even eliminated by cutting out dairy.
-- Frank Oski

#Children #Cutting #Cows

You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.
-- Frank Zappa

#Ham #Cows #Adages

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
-- Fred Allen

#Littles #Cows #Milk

Cease, cows, life is short.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Life Is Short #Cows #Life Is

Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.
-- Gary Yourofsky

#Glasses #Cows #Milk

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
-- Gelett Burgess

#Fun #Purple #Cows

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.
-- Gena Rowlands

#Movie #Hollywood #Cows

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.
-- Gene Spafford

#Wish #Cows #Sacred

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Wine #Mind #Cows

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?
-- George Lakoff

#Cows #Constructive

You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.
-- George Ohsawa

#Life Is Good #Cows #Herbs

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
-- George Orwell

#Home #Government #Cows

I am not about fringing, cow girl boots, that kind of Coachella vibe. I just wear something comfortable.
-- Georgia May Jagger

#Girl #Boots #Cows

Ask me. I'm a cow expert.
-- Gordon Korman

#Experts #Cows #Ask Me

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.
-- Gordon Ramsay

#Next #Milk #Cows

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
-- Grant Wood

#Ideas #Cows #Incubation

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
-- Harry Caray

#Air #Cows #Holy

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
-- Harry Mulisch

#Earth #Cows #Humans

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Inspirational #Long #Cows

I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.
-- Heber C. Kimball

#Thinking #Wife #Cows

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.
-- Helen Weston

#Taken #Animal #Cows

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.
-- Henry Green

#Cowboy #Cows #Way

If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?
-- Homer

#Meat #Want #Cows

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
-- Irving Stone

#Cows #Beastly #Fortune

Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
-- J. B. Morton

#Horse #Cows #Milk

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.
-- Jake Johannsen

#Funny #Tone #Cows

I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'
-- Jason Behr

#Cities #People #Cows

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Men #Cows #Wells

Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
-- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

#Work #Cows #Trade

Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.
-- Jeremy Clarkson

#Trying #Honey #Cows

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
-- Jim Bishop

#Ice Cream #Chocolate #Cows

Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.
-- Jim Butcher

#Pigs #Noses #Cows

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
-- Joan Dye Gussow

#Fitness #Cows #Chemist

Steak is delicious and cows are stupid.
-- Joe

#Stupid #Cows #Steak

You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.
-- Joe Dumars

#Years #Three #Cows

Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.
-- John Boehner

#World #Cows #Climate Change

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
-- John Harvey Kellogg

#Lying #Sheep #Cows

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].
-- John Vaillant

#Cows #Sin

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.
-- Johnny Mercer

#Cowboy #Cows #Saws

But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.
-- Jojo Moyes

#Wife #Cows #Way

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
-- Joseph Addison

#Despair #Cows #Poverty

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
-- Josh Billings

#Cows #Milk

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.
-- Julie Gregory

#Book #Drunk #Cows

Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
-- Karlie Kloss

#Years #Cows #Week

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
-- Kathe Kollwitz

#Work #Cows #Way

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.
-- Kirby Larson

#Grace #Arms #Cows

If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
-- Lalu Prasad Yadav

#Fall #Sick #Cows

Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.
-- Langdon Winner

#Dollars #Actors #Cows

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.
-- Lennart Meri

#Cows #Milk #Mets

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Reading #Cows #Pleasure

In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.
-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#Cows

I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
-- Louise Rennison

#Stupid #Home #Cows

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
-- Lyman Abbott

#Horse #Cows #Harness

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.
-- Mark Lawrenson

#Home #Orchestra #Cows

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
-- Mark Twain

#Religion #Cows #Sacred

Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.
-- Martin Gardner

#Skills #Brain #Cows

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God
-- Martin Luther

#Milk #Cows #Glory

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.
-- Mary Jo Putney

#Men #Thinking #Cows

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
-- Mel Smith

#Cows #Satire #Pantomime

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.
-- Mel Smith

#Sweet #Cows #Comedy

If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.
-- Merlin Mann

#Want #Cows #Break